In the summer of 1961, a fifteen year-old girl named Chyrel Jolls kidnapped children in a nice middle class neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Fifty-five years later, one of her surviving victims recounts his experience for me in an exclusive interview.

For an account of the case, read my article written for ID’s CrimeFeed. See below for some of the original news coverage of the case from the Buffalo Courier-Express archives.

Images and articles courtesy of Buffalo Courier-Express archive, E.H. Butler Library, SUNY College at Buffalo. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Special thanks to archivists Daniel DiLandro and Linda Webster of the E.H. Butler Library.